I saved her {pet bulldog Noelle's) life -- and she changed mine. [Noelle is the title character of The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog -- Estefan's first children's book.]

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

Just because we're celebrities, we shouldn't get dissed. What people might be complaining about is that they think a lot of these [other] celebrities don't wri…

My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

We were in Brooklyn and we stopped by a neighbor's house ... there were these dogs there and I guess they had puppies, she was going to keep one but said she m…

Life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

I have a great love of animals and laughter.